Hat-fastener.



NITED STATES fafzenfied otobe'r 13, 1903.

PATENT FFICE 1 HAT-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFIGATION formirig pairt of Letters Patent N0. 741,024, dated Octoloer 13, 1903.

Application fi1ed October 22, 1900. Seriell N0. 33,827. (N0 moel.)

T0 all wlwm i21" mag e0ncern:

Be itknown that; I, BERNHARD VON FRANTZ- IUS, a, subjeet of the King 0f Prussia, German Emperor, residing als the oiby of Berlin, in bhe Kingdom of Prussia, Germany,have inven ted a eertain new and useful Improvement in Hat- Fasteners, of which the folloWing is a. speeification, such as Will enable obhers skilled in t.he arl3 to whioh il: 2'mppertains 130 make and use the same.

This invention relates 130 improvements in hat-fasteners; and in consists in a device by whieh the hats of women my be fastened upon the head in avery simple a.nd seoure manner, the hats n'ot being in danger of being injured, no parb of the deviee being eapalole of being lost, and the same being incapable of infiioting wounds upon the user 01 others.

On the aeoompanylng drawings, Figures 1 and 2 represent in vertical a.nd horizontal seetion a, hat; provided with this fastener. Fig. 3 shows the head end of the securing-pin on an enlarged soale. Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 are various forme of pin-holding plates for the seouring end of 1Jhe hat-plus, and Figs. 8 a.nd 9 show a, fasteningphi of single instead of doubled wire adapted 110 be used Witl1 my improved fortan of fastening 01 seeuring plate.

Tl1e hat-fastener eonsists of a seeuring-pin,

Figs. l, 2, and 3, and devioes for securing the s.me onlahe head and in be hat. The pin is usua.lly eomposed ofi a, piece 0f suitable resilienl; spring-wre benl; upon itself into Ehe form 0f a hair-pin, pointed all one end and screw-threaded at the other, (designated by the'letter a,) and a head b, secured upon the two ends.

The head b is of any convenient form 01 size an d may loe made of ebonite, ivory, oelluloid, 01 any other convenienb material and has two helles, the diameter of which being a little smaller than the wire of Whieh the phi a, is made.

By serewing the threaded end 0 into one of them a screw-thread will loe eut in tl1e hole. T0 se"oure the pin in the hat, tl1e ende d and c are passed outwarcl through l1he side of tl1e hat; fromm witahin, Figs. 1 and 2, at tl1e proper point-, and the head b is serewed on the threaded end o, after whiel1 the pointed en d d is bent so as t0 allow i t0 be plaoed in the hole provided for it in the head b, where it Will be hold by the natural resilienoy 0f Ehe 011 the inner side of the hat, opposite 130 the points through Whioh the pin a is passed, a holder er securing-plate f(usuallyof the form shown in Fig. 4) is seoured. This holder 01 seeuring-plate f is made of metal, ebonite, 01 the like, is usually of oblong shape, and. is provided Wioh means for seouring the 100p end 0f the pin a therelso, whioh in this Gase consists of oross-bars g, provided With oomhlike points or teetl1 h, Fi;:. 4, over any of whioli the 100p of tbe pin will fit, so as to secure the pin zmgai nsb withdrawal. S0metimes the plate f i'nstead 0f being provided With teethis in the form of a grating formed of resilient spring-Wire s, as shown in-Figs. 5 and 6, in whieh ease tl1e doublecl end 0f the wire forming the pin a is foroecl betweeu such wires aftser being passed through the hairof the wearer and is there held by the resilieney 0f such plate-wlres. In other oases the seeuringplate may be composecl of olose-woven wire fabrio er netting, .as shown in Fig. 7, aud in such ease a. pin having a siugle wireand with a grooved and pointed o1 enlarged 311d pointed 01 enlarged poirited serew-thraded end, 2LS shown in Figs. 8 and 9, may be used, the point belng sorewed er driven into the fine mesh of tl1e metallic fabrio and obere held. In any event tl1e platsef is secured to the hat in any desirecl manner, usnally by being sewed bhereto, it being for tbat pnrpose usually provided With holes at two er more of the edges, as sl1own. 1f desired, the pinS may be used without a seouring-plate, and when two are so used they Will seoure be hat in position agai ns't all save the highest of Winds.

Having Dow fully desoribed my said invention, whata1 elaiin, and desire to seeure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A pip comprising a resilient wire 1ooped upon ibself and point-ed ab the ende, one only of such ende being provide d Wit h a screwthread, and a head provicled with e perforation into whieh the threaded end may be serewed, and a seoond perforaltion into wl1ich the other end may be slipped anti thereafter held berein by he natural resilienoy of the wire, substautially as sn0wn and desoribed.

2. A hat+seeuring devioe oomprising a se- IOO being connected 130 the head portion and the other member being adapted to removably engage a suitable recess in the head portion of the fastener, whereby uhe fastener may be readily app]ied and securely attached 130 a, hat; and easily removed therefrom, substantially aus described.

4:. In a hat-fastener ehe eombination with a head portion, 0f a pin portion consistaing of two members forming a 100p, one member being connected to the head porbion and bhe other member having a pointed end adapted 110 forma an opening in and pass direenly through the hat and removably engage a snitab1e recess in Lhe head portioh of the fastener, whereby the fastener rnay 100 readily applied and securely attached t0 a hat and easily removed laherefrom, substantially as described.

In testimony tha.t I elaim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presenee of two subscribing witnesses.

BERNHARD VON FRANTZIUS.

WVilsnesses:

WOLDERMAR HAUPT, HENRY HASPER. 

